Review: 'The Passenger' by Lyric Opera

A review of the Chicago production: "At once a commemoration of Auschwitz and an allegory for postwar Germany's coming to terms with its past, "The Passenger" is unflinching in what it has to say but is never maudlin – it plays to our humanity rather than our tear ducts. The ending brings no easy answers, no sentimental reconciliation. We are not told how to feel about the characters or the ugly history that shadows their present. We are only asked never to forget." As a side note, the set designer (who died recently) was South African. I listened to some of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's other music on Spotify this morning. He has some very interesting stuff.

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